The search for the next Miss Universe Malaysia 2019 begins... 18 girls were selected, but i only see 17 girls in this pic... (No Natalie Prabha...?) . Few familiar faces - Shweta, Cassandra, any potential candidates based on this pic alone?

Shweta

Nikita, Shweta, Yaw

A body builder also joining ...

Sarodeep, Yishon, Naveesa

The girl who caught my attention so far... Nikita.I dont know.. She really reminds me of Deborah Henry.. Issit good or bad?

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Kudos to you aie for opening this thread. U never failed year after year, a true pageant fan indeed!

I dont think Natalie Prabha is interested in joining any pageants, UNLESS being appointed. Shame, she got everything but passion in pageantry.

This batch is quite promising compared to previous year. Shweta, Nikita, a chindian that i didnt get her name, the body builder, the tallest girl with Thanuja hair, the sweet oriental crazy rich asian chinese girl... Sorry i forgot their names, but they did catch my eyes in the first glance. Hope to see more updates on the contestants soon.

vivadelilah wrote:Kudos to you aie for opening this thread. U never failed year after year, a true pageant fan indeed!

I dont think Natalie Prabha is interested in joining any pageants, UNLESS being appointed. Shame, she got everything but passion in pageantry.

This batch is quite promising compared to previous year. Shweta, Nikita, a chindian that i didnt get her name, the body builder, the tallest girl with Thanuja hair, the sweet oriental crazy rich asian chinese girl... Sorry i forgot their names, but they did catch my eyes in the first glance. Hope to see more updates on the contestants soon.

TQ kakak.. yeah.. bit disappointed regarding Natalie. And yes i do agree with you that this batch is more promising than previous year.. At least we can see feew potentials right? regarding the tallest girl with Thanuja's vibe

Oh wow shikin gomez is hot!!! Pls let her join! Imagine she will represent malaysia in miss universe top 5 for sure.her last name is very spanish or filipina but her malay features are evident and shes fierce shes like a pinay actually

Malaysia has sent Malay contestants before (the last Malay rep we sent was in 1994)... we however not doing so in recent years is due to the possible Malay community reaction rather than its inability to do so. Plus social pressure... thus today it's not a matter of malaysia don't send but the community cannot handle it.. It is not just a religious thing, but also cultural thing..

Malay Malaysians are not allowed to compete in pageants because Malays in Malaysia are all Muslims and due to this (religion) issue, it prevents them from joining beauty pageants or modeling competitions that require wearing swimsuits or revealing clothing, for Miss Universe the main problem for them joining is the Bikini.

The National Fatwa Council, the country’s highest Islamic body, had issued rulings forbidding and prohibiting Muslim women from joining beauty pageants ant it was issued and gazetted under the Federal Territories Islamic Administration Act in February 1996.

A malay candidate today participating and does everything that's required by the competition - let's not mention the rest of the things the participants will be exposing due to the nature of the competition. This would draw so much flak to herself from our own Malay community.

That leaves malaysia with non malay option... We almost always send non-Malays to pageants because they are not Muslims.- Chinese, Indians, Eurasians etc.

Why hasn’t Malaysia placed in top 12/16/20 in previous editions of Miss Universe? Is it because Malaysia didn’t send contestants with a Malay looks? Some peoples believe Malay looks are unique. However, beauty is to the eyes of the beholder and so what we consider beautiful may not be so with others and thus what is unique may not be equally cherish by people of different walks of life. Agreed?

If we were to send these Malay beauties as our rep (apart from vigorous training etc), will we ever get noticed by MUO and perhaps our chances of placing will be higher?

RITA NADIRA

NIA ATASHA

HANEESYA HANEE

RITA SURAYA

ATIKAH KARIM

What do you guys think?

One thing that im really sure is one of the MAIN reason Malaysia haven't place yet simply because the competition is getting tougher and there were simply girls who are better than the ones we send...

its not about whose race MUMalaysia shall sendthey are beautiful, gorgeous, well spoken, articulate. Malaysians are multicultural and competitivebut in pageantstheir girls are simply NOT preparedstylingwalkgowncharismaproper projectiondiplomatic and non polarizing answers in interviewendurance in trainingand many more.

maybe they could have their pageant 1 year before, like what Venezuela and Colombia were doingand send their ladies to the top caliber training of SEA --- Philippines.